Damrak Gin
While most people were still under the impression that the world was flat, the Dutch were busy sailing to and from faraway lands in search of exotic cargo. From the early 1600’s through most of the 1800’s, the Dutch East India Company held a monopoly on the spice trade from Indonesia, Ceylon and the Spice Islands.Ships would return to the DAMRAK (Amsterdam’s “inner harbour”). The DAMRAK became an important mooring place for merchant ships arriving from and departing to exotic ports of call around the world. Established as a
